Moneydick: archive

I spend most of time in the shinyness of web 2.0. A glittery, raised text, and ajaxy valley of opportunity. I’ve got my 208 rss’d sites, and I tend to give sites with names like meebo my complete trust and adoration. But sometimes I wander into web $.7, a world of highlighted text and paypal [...]

I somehow posted this symbol:Which looked like this in my editor: And I got a massive error on my feed. Don’t know wtf.All’s well. It seems subscribers have tripled since I started posting again. Welcome all. Aren’t you glad I fixed it?

A certain wordpress feedburner plugin f’d my feed. Please hold. Now let’s see if I can still upload with SkitchPhew

From Google Street Map View, aka art emergent from the info-machine. zeroed in on by the Great Collector, crying out one at a time without knowing why. If you’re not in the center of these images, you’re blurry. [Gallery here] These images were likely created by this automaton: [from here]

Since my short post on the internet carbon footprint, I’ve come across an analysis of the power demands of the typical avatar on Second Life. Apparently, the typical user (where both that user’s pc and the server providing him/her with the data) consumes a kWH/year on par with your average Brazilian [Roughtype].

Image from here.

Pagans are mad that the likeness of a donut wielding homer has been painted near to a 17th century pagan fertility God known as the Cerne Abbas Giant. Homer appears to be aiming his donut for a certain proboscis.
Ann Bryn-Evans, joint Wessex district manager for The Pagan Federation, said: “It’s very disrespectful and not at [...]

Sometimes people just danceFor more, MASH HERE, or HERE.

A flickr set by RedClover about the making of the Hirst Skull (now worth $22 mill)[Supertouchblog]